History WebVideo / TFSAtTheTable

* AnAesop: Parodied. All of the protagonists regularly look [[BreakingTheFourthWall straight into the camera]] to give basic kid-friendly lessons related to their activities.

In January 2019, the D&D campaign was put into indefinite hiatus as a result of Ben Creighton choosing to leave the company. The timeslot remained in use, returning to its original format of playing random tabletop party games. The campaign continued on February 5th with major changes, such as the introduction of Brienne Olvera's character Morgan Strong and Grant's new character, Chromagil. The regular show was interspersed with other content: the fourth week of each month being given over to games other than D&D. Depending on the circumstances, the team would indulge in other Tabletop RPGs or one-shots with Lani or another member of the team as the DM. The ''Natural Oneders'' campaign ended on December 11th, 2019.

''TFS at the Table'' is a subset of ''Creator/TeamFourStar'''s gaming channel in which members of the crew play various TabletopGames, such as ''TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity'' and ''5-Minute Dungeon''.

In January 2019, the D&D campaign was put into indefinite hiatus as a result of Ben Creighton choosing to leave the company. The timeslot remained in use, returning to its original format of playing random tabletop party games. The campaign continued on February 5th with major changes, such as the introduction of Brian's character Morgan Strong and Grant's new character, Chromagil. The regular show is now interspersed with other content: the fourth week of each month is given over to games other than D&D. The ''Natural Oneders'' campaign ended on December 11th, 2019.

On October 4, 2021, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4aquIiZLCc a trailer]] for a brand-new campaign was released: ''Foolproof'', a "junior detective" story set in Acme, a city where cartoons and doodles coexist with reality. Zito returns as DM, joined by Lanipator as blue dragon sketch and detective Blugen P. Dragon, [[https://twitter.com/IntrospectivSpy Quinn]] as actual blue dragonborn detective Belghast, and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Nowacking Nowacking]] as their new recruit Kyle, with artwork provided by [[https://twitter.com/MockingMoth MockingMoth]]. The series aired every Tuesday, starting on Oct. 5, and consisted of five sessions across two months (not counting a "Session 0" exclusive to Patreon supporters).

* AChildShallLeadThem: The king of the Kals is traditionally the ''youngest'', rather than the oldest, member of the royal family, because they believe the purity of innocence conveys some kind of leadership ability. Wake is perplexed when he learns this.
-->'''Wake''': Is "bring me a bottle" the law of the land sometimes?

* CatchPhrase:
** Grammy's is "Secret ingredent!"
** Eloy has "Hi, I'm Eloy." and "Hey you big dummy!"

* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:[=MasakoX=]'s character, Ysoria]] ends up being one of these in chapter 2 episode 17, [[spoiler:appearing out of a portal at the start of a battle and providing the party with a way to safely evacuate the Unicorn people from the sunken city. Acknowledged by Zito post-session, noting that Ysoria's presence and abilities allowed the guys to completely resolve everything underwater within that session]].
** [[spoiler: Earlier, in the Chapter 1 Finale, the Collective One himself saves the main trio, a petrified Yawgurik, and their comatose Naval allies from the second form of the Abyssal they'd been fighting, who'd already done a serious number on all but Ezra, effectively shutting down the fight and the Abyssal threat for good.]]
* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: In chapter 2 episode 15, [[spoiler: Risf is dead for several hours after being captured by a vengeful spirit]]; after being saved, they reveal they met Vexkor, god of death, and [[spoiler: personally turned down an offer to be an acolyte of said god, and get cursed as a result]].
* DistantFinale: After the campaign ends, the players describe how each of their party members spends the next few years, up to the point of their eventual deaths, [[spoiler: with the exception of Chromagil, who lives on indefinitely as far as anyone knows]].

* EvilVersusEvil: The heroes manage to invoke this in chapter 2 when they convince a horde of immortal troglodytes to attack a young adult blue dragon. [[spoiler:The next episode shows that the Dragon won.]]
* EverybodyLives: The Vennin Island arc, despite having some of the most eerie plot elements seen so far, ends with the restoration of the island's entire population to full health after [[spoiler:the party luck out by managing to kill the Wendigo with fire, its greatest weakness]].

** Minor example during the battle against the vampirized paladin, dubbed "Johnny Dark Souls" by Zito, aboard a ghost ship, as Ezra chooses to scatter a bag of marbles to trip the vampire. It ends up working out so well, it ultimately sends the vampire to a watery grave before it could even make a move on the party.

* HumiliationConga: The vampire paladin a.k.a. "Johnny Dark Souls." First, the Natural One-ders find out he's alive and not just a suspended corpse when Ezra accidentally sets him on fire with a stray fireball. Then, right as his boss fight is about to begin he: 1.slips on some ball bearings Ezra threw down, landing flat on his back, 2.looses his grip on his weapon (a 10ft burning cross, which flies into the air, spins around, lands on him, and smashes him through the floor, 3.sinks to the bottom of the ocean, and finally 4.torn to pieces by a school of blood-hungry mako sharks. All without getting a single hit in.
* IAteWhat: The recipients of Grammy's cooking may get helpful temporary bonuses if they can stomach it, but they tend to regret finding out what went into it. Possibly the worst cases were in Bulkard, where she first serves the crew elephant, an animal regarded as sacred by the Kals who run the area, and then [[spoiler: the remains of Pistachio, a cat-man who was killed offscreen due to becoming too popular for Zito's comfort]]. On learning of this last case, Ezra becomes heavily distraught, and has to suppress the memory of what happened.

* PreviouslyOn: In Chapter 1, each episode is introduced by a recap, voiced by [=KaiserNeko=] and visually demonstrated by fanart. This is dropped in subsequent chapters due to it taking too long to produce.

* RocksFallEveryoneDies: In order to recover the campaign after Ben left the company, [[spoiler:Zito killed off the entire active party, along with most of the population of Iburkal, leaving only Wake as a surviving PC and allowing Grant and Brian to create new characters]].

** While he was trained as a monk, Wake's trauma, and lack of complete training, ends up giving him a personality that heavily contrasts what a monk should be like [[spoiler:when he tries to avenge the death of Gulfer, by torturing the people that he believed kill’d him (up to and including cannibalism) he ends up losing some of his monk abilities for a bit, due to his personality not being compatible with his class. This ends up being one of the reason he decides to stay at the monastery to retrain.]]

* ToadLicking: Parodied with Yt, a Fairy-dragon who looks like a winged poison frog. In the finale of Chapter 2, the crew discover he secretes a powerful hallucinogen, which Wake takes advantage of to trigger a VisionQuest. [[spoiler:In Chapter 3 Episode 7, the guys are warned in no uncertain terms to stop doing it unless they want to draw the attention of the Fey Courts.]]
* ATwinkleInTheSky: The last seen of Pabsvradri, thanks to [[spoiler:Leiutenant Gore]], leaving him open to an eventual return.

* WhamEpisode: A couple being made here or there, but by far the biggest one in the story so far is Chapter 3, Episode 11. [[spoiler:After fighting a group of vampires, the crew meets up with the Grand Design to discuss the problem and Wake comes face-to-face with who he thinks is the one who razed his village, and the exchange culminates in Wake ''leaving the party'' at the very end of the session.]]
** A bigger one in the first episode of 2019: [[spoiler: The Tower of Eburkal exploded, the main party and all in the tower are dead, Eburkal has been destroyed, the king presumably sacrificed, the Onrush having pretty much increased their intensity, the Navy becoming more brutal, and the world in general just being a much harsher place, not unlike the World of Ruin of VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI]].
* WhatTheHellHero: Redd grabs Wake by the throat and gives an ''epic'' example of this[[note]]With Zito comparing her expression to the rageface Kratos makes during the climax of ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'' when Zeus hammers his BerserkButton[[/note]] after Wake [[spoiler:abandoned the group to a dragon just to steal a suit of platemail from its horde, especially since Redd had to give up her research notes -- 12 years of her life -- to appease the dragon.]] Wake manages to escape her full wrath by pointing out that [[spoiler:the dragon took her research ''before'' he ran off, and thus his actions had nothing to do with it. He does apologize properly later on and does promise to get the book back, which they do]].

* AnAesop: All of the protagonists regularly look [[BreakingTheFourthWall straight into the camera]] to give basic kid-friendly lessons related to their activities.

* NoSmoking: Averted-- Gulfur is shown smoking a pipe in the library. Lani lampshades this as being [[ValuesDissonance an 80s cartoon]].

* ParentalBonus: Cleocatra is described as the token overly-sexualized female character with implausible curves designed to give any dads watching some entertainment.

* {{Troperrific}}: The central idea of the episode is to run with all of the cheesy 80s and 90s cartoon tropes the players and DM can possibly invoke.

* PunishmentBox: "The Box" is where Brian's character starts out. Though it initially sounds like horrifically cruel solitary confinement, it turns out to be justified by him being a physically ordinary cat.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatResponsibility: All those with powers feel this way, though it takes Hank a while to come around; initially, he just wants to go home.

* BalefulPolymorph: The [[spoiler:Wendigo]] of Vennin Island transformed all of its residents into deer, with the curse impacting anyone who killed actual deer on the island.

On October 4, 2021, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4aquIiZLCc a trailer]] for a brand-new campaign was released: ''Foolproof'', a "junior detective" story set in Acme, a city where cartoons and doodles coexist with reality. Zito returns as DM, joined by Lanipator as blue dragon sketch and detective Blugen P. Dragon, [[https://twitter.com/IntrospectivSpy Quinn]] as actual blue dragonborn detective Belghast, and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Nowacking Nowacking]] as their new recruit Kyle, with artwork provided by [[https://twitter.com/MockingMoth MockingMoth]]. The series airs every Tuesday, starting on Oct. 5, and is planned to last for roughly two months (save for a "Terror" one-shot on Oct. 26 for the week of Halloween).

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the first session, the party learns that the film lot is still moving out props from the director's previous work, "The Banana's Peel". In the second session, [[spoiler:these props turn out to be Running Gags that the party fights in the storeroom]].

* TheMole: Prince Arden, the players' client, mentions that he first learned about someone killing an actor portraying his father from a spy he had at the film set, but said spy had mysteriously gone silent since then.

* DetectiveDrama: The main goal of the campaign is for the players to investigate who murdered an actor, with the catch that amassing too much attention in the process could lead to the killer getting empowered by the JerkassGods.

* RefugeInAudacity: How does Belghast conduct a séance with a recently-departed spirit, when accompanied by a member of the city's religious order and tasked with being as discreet about the investigation as possible? [[spoiler:Clog up the bathroom sinks, flood the room, and bluff that the Golden Pin guild can summon toilet ghosts in order to do housecleaning]]. It works.

* SuperStrength: In the trailer, Kyle's introduction includes a clip of him grabbing an oven's leg and lifting the large appliance over his head with a single hand.

* TrappedInTVLand: [[spoiler:The third session ends with the protagonists pulled into a movie via an enchanted projector and film reel.]]

On October 4, 2021, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4aquIiZLCc a trailer]] for a brand-new campaign was released: ''Foolproof'', a "junior detective" story set in Acme, a city where cartoons and doodles coexist with reality. Zito returns as DM, joined by Lanipator as blue dragon sketch and detective Blugen P. Dragon, [[https://twitter.com/IntrospectivSpy Quinn]] as actual blue dragonborn detective Belghast, and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Nowacking Nowacking]] as their new recruit Kyle, with artwork provided by [[https://twitter.com/MockingMoth MockingMoth]]. The series airs every Tuesday, starting on Oct. 5, and is planned to last for roughly two months.

* AerithAndBob: According to Eloy's bard tale, the three siblings that run Spumoni's Creamatorium (an ice cream parlor) are Coco, Sakura, and Peter ([[spoiler:who later changed his name to Pistachio]]). These names reflect the three ingredients of their special recipe: [[spoiler: chocolate, cherries, and pistachios]].

* AndIMustScream: The Evergrudge, sire of the troglodytes and first of their kind to drink unicorn blood, has been reduced to a ravaged corpse repeatedly abused by his own offspring, but is still technically alive and perhaps conscious. [[spoiler: Later, all of the troglodytes end up crushed under the waters of the ocean, with no way to move.]]
* AndTheAdventureContinues: [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Zito allows the players to write their own characters' endings, but after they're done he adds in one final scene set after the characters have passed away (except Chromagil) where Nedra sets off to slay the demon of Barnacle Bay.]]

* ColonyDrop: [[spoiler: Happens when the Acropolis at Eburkal is taken by the Lamprey Dogma and the king is (presumably) sacrificed. The whole floating citadel comes falling out of the sky and explodes. Killing not only Ezra, Eloy and Dagon, but also the Lamprey Dogma, and everyone on the citadel or on the island below. Save for some people at the island's very edge.]]
* DeusExMachina: [[spoiler:[=MasakoX=]'s character, Ysoria ends up being one of these in chapter 2 episode 17, appearing out of a portal at the start of a battle and providing the party with a way to safely evacuate the Unicorn people from the sunken city. Acknowledged by Zito post-session, noting that Ysoria's presence and abilities allowed the guys to completely resolve everything underwater within that session.]]

* EvilVersusEvil: The heroes manage to invoke this in chapter 2 when they convince a horde of immortal troglodytes to attack a young adult blue dragon.[[spoiler:The next episode shows that the Dragon won.]]
* EverybodyLives: The Vennin Island arc, despite having some of the most eerie plot elements seen so far, ends with the restoration of the island's entire population to full health after [[spoiler: the party luck out by managing to kill the Wendigo with fire, its greatest weakness]].

* GhostTown: The town on Vennin Island is a particularly eerie example, as by all appearances it seems to be fully occupied and operating normally except for the fact there are no actual people. This is the design of the Wendigo who curses the island, in the hope that travellers will venture in unaware of the danger. This proves convenient after the population is restored, and can get back to their lives with almost no fuss.

* NotCheatingUnlessYouGetCaught: [[spoiler:In Chapter 3 Episode 13, Eloy is about to lose the bardic "Yo Momma" battle when Wake secretly uses a Scroll of Healing Word to keep him up, which allows him to turn the tables and win. Nobody else noticed so they just chalk it up to a HeroicSecondWind, and Lani remarks that Wake considers it his final gift to Eloy and will take the secret to his grave.]]
* NothingIsTheSameAnymore: [[spoiler: With the 2019 reboot, Iburkal is destroyed, the original party seemingly dead, the surrounding lands are awash in refugees, the onrush has increased its intensity greatly, and the Navy have become all the more brutal in response.]]

* PolitenessJudo: Eloy manages to get past a number of potentially lethal scenarios by asking nicely, most notably when he got into a guarded door on a ship controlled by enemy vampires by just being nice to it. In the beginning of Chapter 4 he tries this unsuccessfully on [[spoiler: a collapsing Splendormaw]], after saying, "You'd be surprised how often this works."

* PromotedToPlayable: Almost every major [=NPC=] becomes available as a team member in the final act of the campaign, including [spoiler: Grammy]], who the players note suffers a massive power drop as a result, because their abilities had been treated as functionally limitless beforehand.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Wake is driven to this after [[spoiler: Gulfur is killed, seemingly by tribal frog people]], though he's prevented from doing so, first by their paralyzing poison, then by Ezra having become their king and trying to keep the situation from becoming too heated. In the end, [[spoiler: he maims and tortures an innocent frog man who he misidentifies as the culprit, an act which destabilizes his moral alignment and triggers a vision that warns of the dangers of giving in to his rage.]]
* RocksFallEveryoneDies: [[spoiler: In order to recover the campaign after Ben left the company, Zito killed off the entire active party, along with most of the population of Iburkal, leaving only Wake as a surviving PC and allowing Grant and Brian to create new characters.]]
* RunningGag: After Chapter 2 [[spoiler: and the reveal that Lt. Gore is a dragon]], Eloy persistently asks new [=NPCs=] if they're secretly a dragon. Eventually he gets the rest of the crew doing the same.

** While he was trained as a monk, Wake's trauma, and lack of complete training, ends up giving him a personality that heavily contrasts what a monk should be like [[spoiler: when he tries to avenge the death of Gulfer, by torturing the people that he believed kill’d him (up to and including cannibalism) he ends up losing some of his monk abilities for a bit, due to his personality not being compatible with his class. This ends up being one of the reason he decides to stay at the monastery to retrain.]]
** While the pirate lords are typically depicted as {{Retired Monster}}s who react strongly when one of them is slighted, the seeming exception to this is Captain Rumblood. The reason? He uses orphaned children for his crew, leading to them being put into multiple dangerous situations [[spoiler: like vampire experiments]], meaning that while the others may find him useful, they certainly don’t mind him being punished by the Navy.

* ScaryMaskedMen: The representatives of the Golden Pin guild that give the players their case and introduce them to their new client are a pair of imposing figures that are always wearing bird masks.

On October 4, 2021, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4aquIiZLCc a trailer]] for a brand-new campaign was released: ''Foolproof'', a "junior detective" story set in Acme, a city where cartoons and doodles coexist with reality. Zito returns as DM, joined by Lanipator as living dragon sketch and detective Blugen P. Dragon, Quinn as actual dragon detective Belghast, and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Nowacking Nowacking]] as their new recruit Kyle, with artwork provided by [[https://twitter.com/MockingMoth MockingMoth]]. The series airs every Tuesday, starting on Oct. 5, and is planned to last for roughly two months.

On October 4, 2021, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4aquIiZLCc a trailer]] for a brand-new campaign was released: ''Foolproof'', a "junior detective" story set in Acme, a city where cartoons and doodles coexist with reality. Zito returns as DM, joined by Lanipator as living dragon sketch and detective Blugen P. Dragon, Quinn as actual dragon detective Belghast, and [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Nowacking Nowacking]] as their new recruit Kyle, with artwork provided by [[https://twitter.com/MockingMoth MockingMoth]]. The series airs every Tuesday, starting on Oct. 5.

* PointOfNoReturn: Zito outright refers to Book6, Ep.7 as this, as it's largely a lore dump as well as a point where the crew levels up, communes with the gods, and learns they must create their final party to face the Onrush head on.

** [[spoiler:Many times they joked that because Wake stayed behind due to angst, sooner or later the rest of the party will suffer a TotalPartyKill and Wake will get even more angster. Then the Tower exploded...]]
* ThatsNoMoon: By player consensus, the reason Wake failed to notice [[spoiler: Lieutenant Gore's dragon form]] is that he mistook it for ''the shoreline''.

* ATwinkleInTheSky: The last seen of Pabsvradri, thanks to [[spoiler: Leiutenant Gore]], leaving him open to an eventual return.